Keep It Simple and Fast refers to my focus during development of applications. In my opinion, applications should be very simple to use and do not have dozens of options. Every application should perform very fast, even in high transactions volume or high multi user environments.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

The first CTP of the successor of SQL Server 2008 R2, codename SQL 'Denali' is available for download. It contains a lot new stuff. Keep in mind SQL server isn't just a database, it is an entire information platform by making use of SharePoint server. The need for a SharePoint installation can be a challenge for the companies with do not have or a very small ICT department.

Here is a short list of new high level topics:

Project codename “Crescent”, a web-based, data visualization and presentation solution, and follow-on to the PowerPivot technology that is part of SQL Server 2008 R2

Project codename 'Crescent'. This will help the people in the board room to easily analyze and play with the data they are looking at.

Project codename 'Apollo'. Performance is one of my specialties in SQL Server. For every new SQL version I look forward to the improvements on performance. This new column-store database technology will indeed improve the performance of your datawarehouse significantly.

Another important thing to mention: No big compatibility issues are expected as we have had in the past from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005. This will make it easy to upgrade to a the new version with you current SQL Server databases.
If you are interested to look around in the CTP version, you can download it here

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About Me

My name is André van de Graaf, I'm working for Exact Software in the Research team as Principal Research Engineering. I'm located in Delft, The Netherlands. In my work i have a strong focus on performance of applications. Beside performance I want to keep everything as simple as possible. What is the perfect balance between performance and functionality?